The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-03-15
To F. n. Monroe, Howep, Michigan.
A Crush at Plymouth


New YORK, March 13.-The evening
services in Plymouth Church was re
markable from the fact that clergymen
of almost every denomination were
present, and spoke in eulogy of the late
Beecher. The building was crowded to
excess, and the vestibules were utterly
impossible, and during the service
many people tainted, and more
than one remained where they
sWOOned or could not be carried out.
Rev. Halliday conducted the services
and read the following letter from DR..
NcGjynu, depOsed priest OF St Steph-
eu's Church, New York:
r.. md Dear Kr. Halliday:
iiegret very much that I cannot be
y.aseuJ this evening at the nesting al
lvm1Gtn Church to honor the memory
of he grt at pastor an a to condole for the
'TrepaTaDle loss. ] must, therefore con-
tenL myself with saying briefly in writ
Ing what [ should say more fully in
speech. 1t is the sign of the daWning
OF better day Tor which the world has
so long yearned that such a meeting
should be possible, and that you and
yours should so earnestly desire the
presence of a. clergyman OF that church
which seems so remote and too MANY
would say-antagonistic 10 ours. Fore
most In the work of Fastening the COM
ing OF the better day was the great man
whose death we mourn, and for whose
work We give thanks. None so well as
he taught the men and land of his time
10 exalt the essentials OF religion, pure
and undefiled, in which we all agree
aad to minimize the differences that
seem to separate US. To him was given
to see with a clear vision, to reveal I'm
equaled genius, and with tireless
energy to make common among men
the meaning of him who taught of old
or the mount and by the sea shore, the
care Of all religion, the brotherhood of
man. cheerfully confess that
tom BeeCher | learned from
the first days OF my ministry
new tenderness and the fullness Of the
meaning Of Our Father" and l am
CAD to be able here to state that the
theology vi the old church agrees with
MS 10 this, that the essence Of religion
: IN communion with God, through the |
iiOVe OF him, for his own sake, and in |
owing all men with the zest with which |
we love ourselves, and that while Sacri- |
nee and sacrament, creed and ritual |
prayer and sermon aud song may be, |
ana are powerful helps and necessary |
manifestations of this religion, which |
mockery and blasphemy. I thankfully |
count MIN among the masters from |
"nom l have learned the fuller
meaning Of the PRAYER ''Thv will
De zone on earth as 1t is in heaven "
We mast all agree with Beecher that
me condition and duties and strifes of
v"' tshporal life are but the signs and
y Aoo!S OF spiritual things. and that in
sGe yeafGlng OF this whole world for
-peFty- equality and fraternity - Is
iIaue reign OF Justice and love. If we
LUCK out the religious heart of it the
S~E9eh IS not worth bearing. nor the
Sa-ue worth tgaLing. He and other
TEantS OF their time have cleared the
held and illuminated the way for greater
progress and helped to give more per.
Lect assurance Of victory in the strife
nat Is now besnniug against wider
slavery tGsn that against which he dealt
MS sturdy blOWs-the enslaving of tine
masses by claSSes-and 10 cement a
-'tul' not merely of American States.
,'~i OF the people of the world. Stimu-
-ased, encouraged by his success let us
axe up the burden of the people's
"IonsS, where his tired shoulders have
-a-u II Down, and fight new battle. if
"eeu be, till the right shall come. and
" see the burden fall from our shout
rs ;; and the weapons from our hand,
.'.aI nave nearer vision than was
sven IN the reign OF the Prince of P eace.
AHecuonately and fraternally,
EDWARD MCGLYNN.